Halloween Market on Fleetwood Seashore on Pangea Grid. (Picture courtesy Mike Fleetwood.)
OpenSim grids are filling up with haunted hunts, costume events, and Halloween freebie markets this October.
Right here’s the place to go and what to do in-world earlier than the candles burn out on October 31. All instances are grid time — Pacific — except famous.
AutumnFest returns to Alternate Metaverse for six days
Alternate Metaverse is holding its annual AutumnFest from Tuesday, October 27, via Sunday, November 1, throughout 9 areas, AMV occasions supervisor Debbie Phoenix instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV AutumnFest
The primary touchdown area is residence to the Crescent Moon AI Halloween and autumn artwork gallery, a cabin by the lake, Halloween castles, the Naked Lilies spooky graveyard stage, and a music venue known as Beneath the Graveyard, Phoenix mentioned. Teleporters there result in the opposite AutumnFest areas.
The six-day schedule has stay singers, DJs, karaoke, open mic, stomach dancing, storytelling, chakra consciousness and guided meditation lessons, bingo and grasping socials, a Freak Evening social gathering, and free outfits for all, Phoenix mentioned. “Costumes are welcome and even inspired at any of the occasions.”
The Halloween highlights are on the final two days. On Saturday, October 31, there’s a Halloween social gathering at Cranium Citadel on the AMV AutumnFest Halloween area, and DJ Tom Southmoor performs Halloween City Corridor from 4 to six p.m. On Sunday, November 1, DJ Dragon Woman hosts a Halloween social gathering at Halloween City Corridor from 8 to 10 a.m., adopted by trick or deal with at Sleepy Hole from 10 a.m. to midday and a Halloween grasping social at midday.
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Halloween City
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV AutumnFest Halloween
Every day begins with a morning breakfast present at 6 a.m. on the grid’s welcome area, with stay performers and DJs via the early afternoon on the Pumpkin Stage in Halloween City and on the AMV AutumnFest Stage, based on the schedule. Stay acts embody Clan Escotia and his band, Zoree Jupiter, Casaenia Baxton, Mavenn Stay, Joao Frazao, Khiron Ametza, and Mr M and the All Nighters.
Different stops embody the Surreal AutumnFest area, with stay DJs, Freak Evening and energy trance exhibits, and “an entire bunch of Aliens,” Phoenix mentioned; October Park on the AMV AutumnFest October area, with Clan’s Haunted Dollhouse and the storytelling and meditation periods; a tribute present on the AutumnFest InTribute area; and a “Spooktacular” open mic evening on the Open Mic Arts area hosted by Dave King, Winter King, and Whisper Carfield. There’s no fall style present this yr, however the Meow Trend area has earlier years’ fall fashions free for the taking.
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Surreal AutumnFest
Workers photographer Zelle Mist might be taking autumn and Halloween portraits all through the occasions, and there’s a cosplay retailer on the AMV Freebies Mall for anybody who wants a fancy dress, Phoenix mentioned. The complete schedule is on the grid’s events calendar, and occasions are topic to adjustments, additions, and cancellations.
The construct workforce was Cataplexia Numbers, Chris McCracken, Clifford Hanger, Lilie Finesmith, and Webby Merlin, Phoenix mentioned.
Halloween freebie markets
On Alternate Metaverse, DragonLady Shinobiaa opened her Halloween Market 2026 on October 15 at Carpe Noctem 2, with “lots of deco lots in full perm some textures and extra,” she said in a post on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Carpe Noctem 2
On Pangea Grid, Mike Fleetwood’s Halloween Market on the Inexperienced Market on Fleetwood Seashore is open via October 31, Fleetwood said in a post on OpenSimWorld. “Halloween season has begun on Fleetwood — and my Halloween Market is now open for you till October thirty first.”
Hypergrid handle: pangeagrid.de:8002:Fleetwood Seashore
Holoneon has an adult-rated Halloween mall known as Hella Spooky, which Fiona Candy, who is understood in-world as Aeris Irides, announced on OpenSimWorld in late September: “come have enjoyable with us and kick off Halloween month.”
Hypergrid handle: hg.holoneon.com:80:Hella Spooky
The Chubelz grid additionally opened a small Halloween buying area at first of the month, based on its OpenSimWorld listing.
Hypergrid handle: chubelz.de:8002:Chubelz-Halloween
Candle hunt on Three Hills Grid
The Wednesday at Midnight area on Three Hills Grid reopened on October 7 with a hunt that runs via the top of the month, grid proprietor Marianna Monentes said in a post on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: three.hills.grid.outworldz.web:8002:Wednesday at Midnight
“Comply with the candlelight. Discover the candles. Gather the presents,” Monentes mentioned. Every hidden candle holds Halloween decor, “spooky treasures,” or a Halloween avatar.
The construct mixes the Addams Household, Beetlejuice, and the Sanderson Sisters, with new traps by Outworldz developer Fred Beckhusen, who is understood in-world as Ferd Frederix, she added in a later post. “Enter for those who dare… however beware!”
Halloween Shack Sundays on Equinox Grid
Equinox Grid is working its Halloween Shack events on Sundays from 4 to six p.m. on its EQG Particular Occasions area, with the final one this Sunday, October 25, based on the grid’s event calendar.
Hypergrid handle: equinoxgrid.com:8002:EQG Particular Occasions
“Starting in the present day, Halloween Shack returns,” organizer Xaria Aubrey said in a post on OpenSimWorld on October 11.
The area is adult-rated and group-access solely, so guests arriving exterior occasion hours want a customer tag from the EQG Cornfield area first.
Haunted Halloween Isles are again on Pals Grid
Friends Grid has reopened its Haunted Halloween Isles, an adult-rated area with a zombie hunt, a haunted forest, a ghost city, witchy woods, a cemetery, and a family-friendly pumpkin patch, co-creator Safine Mahoe said in a post on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: login.friends-grid.com:8002:Haunted Halloween Isles
“Come go to, however understand you might not go away alive,” mentioned Mahoe.
New this yr is a Day of the Useless space constructed with supplies from Kimm Starr and Cooper Swizzle, Mahoe mentioned. The area was constructed by Mahoe and Zuzu Bahro.
Trick or deal with all month on the October area on Digital Worlds Zone
Virtual Worlds Zone opened a area known as October at first of the month, the place guests stroll a suburban neighborhood, knock on doorways, and click on on sweet bowls for presents, based on the region’s OpenSimWorld listing.
Hypergrid handle: grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002:October
The area is owned by 9, who is understood in-world as ParadigmSeasonal, and opened on October 3 with a four-DJ social gathering, based on the itemizing.
A second social gathering, billed as Trick or Deal with: Halloween Evening, will run from 10 a.m. to three p.m. with DJ Mild Ray, DJ ChiChi, DJ Minxy, and Adrian Moon, based on a post on OpenSimWorld. “If the lights exit, RUN.”
Zombies and Day of the Useless at OSFest 2026
OSFest 2026, which runs October 12 via 26, opened a Area Alien Zombie Quest on its first day, Kimm Starr said in a post on OpenSimWorld. The competition put its theme to a community vote this previous spring.
Hypergrid handle: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:OSF_Event
The competition can be working a tour known as Día de los Muertos: A Journey Past, hosted by Starr and Cooper Swizzle on The Zones grid, which began on October 16, based on the event listing on OpenSimWorld. “The journey begins October sixteenth,” the itemizing mentioned.
Hypergrid handle: login.thezones.icu:8002:Day of the Useless
Guests are requested to take away HUDs, animation overriders, and scripted attachments earlier than arriving, based on the itemizing.
Study to construct a Halloween gazebo with AI instruments
Starr and Swizzle are additionally instructing a 90-minute Halloween Gazebo Constructing Class on Tuesday, October 27, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on The Zones’ Studying Zone area, Xenon Darrow said in a post on OpenSimWorld for the Digital Worlds Training Consortium. The category was moved from an earlier October date.
Hypergrid handle: login.thezones.icu:8002:The Zones
The hands-on session makes use of AI-assisted 3D constructing instruments and comes with a free mesh equipment of “pumpkins, lanterns, skeletons, and extra,” Darrow mentioned. Contributors have to put in the required packages forward of time by following the directions within the #learning-zone channel of The Zones Discord. “We is not going to have time in the course of the session to obtain or set up packages.”
The category is co-presented by the consortium, The Zones, and WolfTEC, based on the publish.
A Halloween Ball at Citadel Dracula on Wolf Territories
Wolf Territories Grid kicked off its Halloween season with a Halloween Get together Bash on October 16 at its Radio DJ Membership, with DJ Eagle, based on the grid’s event calendar. “Please have your Costume on,” DJ Eagle, who is understood in-world as Eagle Fang, said in a post on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Radio DJ Membership
Subsequent up, on Tuesday, October 27, Garrett Glendale is throwing a Halloween Ball within the Citadel Dracula ballroom on the Glendale Islands, based on the calendar. “The Depend Himself will take the stage for the Halloween Ball,” Glendale mentioned within the itemizing. “Costumes and Masquerade Get together Gown is inspired.”
Hypergrid handle: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Glendale Property
A haunted maze on Escape 2 Actuality
The Escape 2 Actuality grid has its Halloween area again up with “virtually a dozen new gadgets,” together with new props and bounce scares, area proprietor Escaped2Again said in a post on OpenSimWorld on October 13.
Hypergrid handle: grid.escape2reality.org:8002:Escape2 Halloween
“Bear in mind the maze begins on the home and there is just one option to escape the maze are you able to?” the publish mentioned. New presents have been to be added on the finish of the maze final weekend, and 4 of final yr’s freebies are nonetheless out.
Extra spooky areas to discover
Darkness Falls, a brand new area on the VB Creations grid, went up on October 15 with a pumpkin patch, a 21-and-over graveyard nightclub, a haunted carnival, and a foggy Nineteenth-century haunted city, based on its OpenSimWorld listing by DevonSoul. “The place Autumn Magic Meets Nightmarish Thrills.”
Hypergrid handle: vbcreations.outworldz.web:8002:Spooky Land
Neverworld Grid has a misty walk-through area known as Hocus Pocus by Govega Sachertorte, which warns guests to “watch out for the church graveyard,” based on its OpenSimWorld listing.
Hypergrid handle: hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002:Hocus Pocus
Holoneon additionally picked up Nevermore, Yinni Benelli’s dark-realm area previously on OSgrid, which reopened on October 16. “Come for the darkness. Keep for the thriller. Nevermore awaits,” Benelli said in a post on OpenSimWorld.
Hypergrid handle: hg.holoneon.com:80:Nevermore
And on The 3 Originals, a Brazilian grid, Klaus Mickaelson reopened Noite Eterna, an adult-rated gothic fort and cemetery, on October 16 after a renovation, based on its OpenSimWorld listing. “The shadows have woke up as soon as once more.”
Hypergrid handle: the3originals.com.br:8002:Noite Eterna
Ghost tales from Storylink Radio, on any grid
Storylink Radio is simulcasting its Thursday evening ghost story periods at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. to its Storylink Radio property in Kitely from Seanchai’s Bradbury Venture construct in Second Life, based on the Seanchai Library blog. The remaining periods are tonight, October 22, and subsequent Thursday, October 29.
Hypergrid handle: grid.kitely.com:8002:StorylinkRadio
Venue homeowners on any grid may pipe in Storylink’s new free 24-hour ghost story stream as parcel audio, as we reported last week.
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